Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Genesis 17:5 in English Standard Version "No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations." Ne 9:7 You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. Ro 4:17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.